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Letter: Recalling the words of Margaret Chase Smith

I wish to quote a few lines from Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s courageous speech to the Senate, delivered June 1 1950, as she spoke out about what was happening to her beloved political party.

“I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a U.S. senator. I speak as an American...I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear... Surely we Republicans aren’t that desperate for victory... I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest...” As a Democrat, as a deeply patriotic American, I fervently hope her timeless words will ring true this November.